Improvement in sand-paper holders



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AZEL II. COPELAND, OF VES'I BRID GEXVATER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IM PROVEM ENT IN SAN D-PAPER HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 8,681, dated January27, 1852.

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, AZEL H. CoPELAND,of fest Bridgewater, in the countyof Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented a newandusefulShoe-MakersImplementcalled a Sand-Paper Holder, for Smoothing theBottoms or Soles of Boots and Shoesyand I do hereby declare that thefollowing description, taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specificationof the same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of mysaid improvement, by which my invention may be distinguished from othersof a similar class, together with such parts as I claim and desire tohave secured to me by Letters Patent.

In the accompanying plate of drawings, Figure l is an elevation of mysand-paper holder when half opened; and Fig. 2 is a section of the same,taken in the plane of the line A B, Fig. 1, with the two sides closed.

My sand-paper holder is made of two like pieces of Wood a a b b, oneside of each of which is made fiat and the other side `rounded to thefiat edges and terminating in the handles c c d CZ at the ends. Thesepieces ct a, b b are joined together lengthwise by a piece of cloth orleather e e, fastened or glued to and around their rounded sides, thusforming a hinge, on which the two pieces can turn and be broughttogether on their i'lat sides by the handles c c CZ d. Near each end ofthe fiat side of one of the pieces a pin or dowel ff is inserted,whichwhen the fiat sides are brought together enter corresponding holes inthe opposite piece, and thus hold the two pieces firmly together. Nearthe outer edge of the fiat side of each piece are inserted several`small Wire pins g g g, dac., which when the fiat sides' are broughttogether enter corresponding holes in the opposite sides. The roundededges may be covered with one or several pieces of cloth. A sheet ofsand-paper h, of suit-able size, is fastened by means of the small pinsg g, &c., to the inside fiat edge of one piece, and then drawn smoothlyover the round covered sides of both pieces and fastened to and held bythe Wire pins in the other piece, thus forming a sand-paper holder forsmoothing the soles of boots and shoes.

Having thus described my invention, I shall state my claim as follows:That Iclaim as my invention, and desire to have secured to me by LettersPatent, is-

The implement called a sand-paper holder, constructed substantially asabove described-that is, of two similar pieces of wood with handles atthe ends, the inner sides flat and theother sides rounded, joinedtogether lengthwise by a hinge of cloth or leather, so that the fiatsides can be brought together, the outer edges of the fiat sideshavingsmall wire pins inserted in them, by Which the sandpaper is held,and the two pieces being held together when closed by dowels in one ofthe Ilat sides entering corresponding holes in the other fiat side.

AZEL H. COPELAND. Witnesses:

AUSTIN PACKARD, JOSEPH GAvETT.

